California Appeals Court Expedites Trial for Mesothelioma Victim
Asbestos Personal Injury Case to Be Expedited Due to Age and Medical Condition of Claimant
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Mesothelioma to be group’s top priority
Congratulations, you’re now registered! Let us know what news and updates you want to hear about and we’ll send them straight to your inbox. For the last 18 months, Chris Knighton, from Wallsend-based Mick Knighton Mesothelioma Research Fund, has been …
Asbestos: an ongoing challenge to global health
Challenges to global health can evolve from policies and decisions that take years or decades to unfold.
British Rail give family 96k payout after mesothelioma death
A FAMILY from Swindon has received thousands of pounds from British Rail following the death of a former employee who spent more than 40 years working for the company. Valentine Thomas died in 2011, aged 88, having contracted mesothelioma, a cancer cau…
Judge Denies Bid to Reopen Garlock Asbestos Liability Trial
Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC, the EnPro Industries Inc. unit that filed Chapter 11 in June 2010 to address asbestos claims, won a long-fought battle with personal-injury claimants when their request to reopen the record of a trial estimating the co…
Asbestos Discovered During Modernization Project Creates $7.8 Million Headache for Ocean View School District
Ocean View School District Facing $7.8 Million Budget Gap in Wake of Asbestos Troubles
Burnham dad’s job could have been cause of death
A FATHER of three’s job as a firefighter could have led to the disease that claimed his life, an inquest heard. David Roger Burt, 69, of Berrow Road, Burnham, died from malignant mesothelioma after coming into contact with asbestos when he worked for S…
Scottish medicines consortium accepts the use of Alimta (pemetrexed)…
On 8th December 2014, the Scottish Medicines Consortium accepted for use within NHS Scotland Alimta monotherapy for the maintenance treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in patients whose disease has not progressed imme…
Polaris Group Announces Treatment of First Patient in Phase 1 Study…
Polaris Group is currently conducting clinical trials on ADI-PEG 20 in combination with cisplatin in melanoma and ovarian cancer, in combination with doxorubicin in HER2 negative breast cancer, in combination with nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine for adv…
Managing cancer treatment
Q. My mother was just diagnosed with breast cancer, and we’re confused by the med-speak that the doctors are using. They keep asking Mom what she wants to do, but how can she know what’s best for her? – Kathy G., Orlando, Florida A. You’ve pinpointed a…
Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Drugs Pipeline: New analysis released
This report provides comprehensive information on the therapeutic development for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma, complete with comparative analysis at various stages, therapeutics assessment by drug target, mechanism of action , route of administratio…
EPA Announces Results of Health Risk Study in Libby
Long-Awaited EPA Health Risk Study Shows Significant Improvement in Libby Air Quality
Vegetable Compound May Reduce Mesothelioma Treatment Side Effects
A compound in cruciferous vegetables, combined with chemotherapy drug cisplatin, may lead to promising new mesothelioma treatments with fewer side effects.
New Drug Ofev Gaining Momentum in Fight Against Mesothelioma
Researchers conducting multicenter clinical trials using nintedanib, known by its brand name Ofev, say the new drug may relieve mesothelioma symptoms.
Drs. Oz and Roizen: How to manage your cancer treatment
Q.: My mother was just diagnosed with breast cancer, and we’re confused by the med-speak that the doctors are using. They keep asking Mom what she wants to do, but how can she know what’s best for her? – Kathy G., Orlando, Fla.